Posted on 08/29/2011 7:32:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Everything went according to plan for two pajama-clad stepsisters who took a goat they'd freed from a Minnesota zoo for a late-night walk.
Until they told the Mankato police officer who stopped them about 11:30 p.m. Saturday that the animal lived in their bedroom closet.
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2 pajama-clad girls take stolen goat for walk ping
That’s pretty cute. Reminds me of the excuses my sister and I had at that age.
No criticism of you because AP changed the title so you wouldn’t have seen it. This was posted earlier (with a slightly different title)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2770418/posts
The real story here: Two preteen girls managed to COMPLETELY CONFOUND security at a Zoo, most of which have ample security to detect Sam Fisher.
Mom and Dad are eco-nuts, right?
Me and my brother found a goat chained to a pallet once and we brought it home and stuck it in the barn (old house). We played with it and fed it for days before the animal control people finally came and took it. It was fun trying to get him to head butt us and then escaping.
we were stupid
Funny~
When I was little, we rode horses to school. About 1.5 miles.
Once there they would walk home by themselves for feed and hang until the end of the day when my mom would ride her horse to the school with ours following to pick us up.
This was the late 1960’s in Harbor Springs Michigan.
America is no longer what I recognize as a child - today we would be sued for cruelty to animals.
real story: Where were their parents? Why were two children able to do this without the parents knowing they were gone?
Mankato, MN, the “Deep Valley” of the Betsy -Tacy books. This could be a story in one of them.
Wow. I’ll just focus on the positive.
What a wonderful childhood.
And a nice life for the horses.
I saw that. Sorry ;(
No worries. Better two pings than none.
;)
Nanny-state ping.
“Why were two children able to do this without the parents knowing they were gone”
Well, they are step-sisters and the article made it sound like they decided to take the goat after a birthday event at the zoo. Believe me, kids are pretty sly. Once, when I was about six and a little friend was five, we snuck outside after midnight just to see what “the dark looked like”. The only reason her parents knew we did this was because the door shut and locked us out. The awoke to two children, banging on the door, screaming bloody murder because “dark” is scary. LOL!
lol
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